excel is in edit mode in another window

No other windows open?   SW if you are listening use plan english and save us all a bunch of headache.  How does one even put Excel in edit mode? don't you need to be a programmer or have some special code access to even get a program into edit mode?    All i wanted to do is put a 1" lip in some sheet metal but now it's 3 hours of figuring out how to do something I can draw by hand in 10 seconds...   How is this productive ?  

    

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